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We introduce a new algorithm, called adaptive sparse backfitting algorithm, for solving high dimensional Sparse Additive Model (SpAM) utilizing symmetric, non-negative definite smoothers. Unlike the previous sparse backfitting algorithm,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-13 Yan Li

Iteratively reweighted least square (IRLS) is a popular approach to solve sparsity-enforcing regression problems in machine learning. State of the art approaches are more efficient but typically rely on specific coordinate pruning schemes.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-03 Clarice Poon , Gabriel Peyré

Recent advances in optimizing Gaussian Splatting for scene geometry have enabled efficient reconstruction of detailed surfaces from images. However, when input views are sparse, such optimization is prone to overfitting, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Meiying Gu , Jiawei Zhang , Jiahe Li , Xiaohan Yu , Haonan Luo , Jin Zheng , Xiao Bai

In this paper we introduce a notion of spectral approximation for directed graphs. While there are many potential ways one might define approximation for directed graphs, most of them are too strong to allow sparse approximations in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Michael B. Cohen , Jonathan Kelner , John Peebles , Richard Peng , Anup Rao , Aaron Sidford , Adrian Vladu

This work puts forth low-complexity Riemannian subspace descent algorithms for the minimization of functions over the symmetric positive definite (SPD) manifold. Different from the existing Riemannian gradient descent variants, the proposed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-19 Yogesh Darmwal , Ketan Rajawat

In the Sparse Linear Regression (SLR) problem, given a $d \times n$ matrix $M$ and a $d$-dimensional query $q$, the goal is to compute a $k$-sparse $n$-dimensional vector $\tau$ such that the error $||M \tau-q||$ is minimized. This problem…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Sariel Har-Peled , Piotr Indyk , Sepideh Mahabadi

The conjugate gradient solver (CG) is a prevalent method for solving symmetric and positive definite linear systems Ax=b, where effective preconditioners are crucial for fast convergence. Traditional preconditioners rely on prescribed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zherui Yang , Zhehao Li , Kangbo Lyu , Yixuan Li , Tao Du , Ligang Liu

In this work, we introduce a novel local pairwise descriptor and then develop a simple, effective iterative method to solve the resulting quadratic assignment through sparsity control for shape correspondence between two approximate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Rui Xiang , Rongjie Lai , Hongkai Zhao

We introduce and compare new compression approaches to obtain regularized solutions of large linear systems which are commonly encountered in large scale inverse problems. We first describe how to approximate matrix vector operations with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-12 Sergey Voronin , Dylan Mikesell , Guust Nolet

Overlapping block smoothers efficiently damp the error contributions from highly oscillatory components within multigrid methods for the Stokes equations but they are computationally expensive. This paper is concentrated on the development…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Lisa Claus , Matthias Bolten

Inversion of sparse matrices with standard direct solve schemes is robust, but computationally expensive. Iterative solvers, on the other hand, demonstrate better scalability; but, need to be used with an appropriate preconditioner (e.g.,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-28 Hadi Pouransari , Pieter Coulier , Eric Darve

Reconstruction of images from noisy linear measurements is a core problem in image processing, for which convex optimization methods based on total variation (TV) minimization have been the long-standing state-of-the-art. We present an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Jean Barbier , Eric W. Tramel , Florent Krzakala

The computational cost of many signal processing and machine learning techniques is often dominated by the cost of applying certain linear operators to high-dimensional vectors. This paper introduces an algorithm aimed at reducing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Luc Le Magoarou , Rémi Gribonval

This paper presents a new algorithmic framework for computing sparse solutions to large-scale linear discrete ill-posed problems. The approach is motivated by recent perspectives on iteratively reweighted norm schemes, viewed through the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Lucas Onisk , Malena Sabaté Landman

Recently, a class of algorithms combining classical fixed point iterations with repeated random sparsification of approximate solution vectors has been successfully applied to eigenproblems with matrices as large as $10^{108} \times…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Jonathan Weare , Robert J. Webber

Smoothing algorithms for state-space models, i.e., fixed-interval smoothing, fixed-lag smoothing, and two-filter formula for smoothing, are examined using real examples. For linear and Gaussian state-space models, it is observed that…

Computation · Statistics 2023-07-10 G. Kitagawa

Efficient solutions of large-scale, ill-conditioned and indefinite algebraic equations are ubiquitously needed in numerous computational fields, including multiphysics simulations, machine learning, and data science. Because of their…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Xiaoye Sherry Li , Yang Liu

The discrete Laplace operator is ubiquitous in spectral shape analysis, since its eigenfunctions are provably optimal in representing smooth functions defined on the surface of the shape. Indeed, subspaces defined by its eigenfunctions have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Yoni Choukroun , Gautam Pai , Ron Kimmel

We propose a novel sparse sliced inverse regression method based on random projections in a large $p$ small $n$ setting. Embedded in a generalized eigenvalue framework, the proposed approach finally reduces to parallel execution of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-04 Jia Zhang , Runxiong Wu , Xin Chen

Relaxation processes driven by a Laplacian matrix can be found in many real-world big-data systems, for example, in search engines on the World-Wide-Web and the dynamic load balancing protocols in mesh networks. To numerically implement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 S. Hwang , D. -S. Lee , B. Kahng